Study it in the app“guard yourself so that you are not snared into following them after they have been destroyed before you, and so that you do not seek their gods, saying, “How did these nations serve their gods? I also will do likewise.””
guard yourselfהִשָּׁמֶר לְךָso that you are notפֶּןsnaredתִּנָּקֵשׁinto followingאַחֲרֵיthemהֶםafterאַחֲרֵיthey have been destroyedהִשָּׁמְדָםbefore you,מִפָּנֶיךָand so that you do notוּפֶןseekתִּדְרֹשׁtheir gods,לֵאלֹהֵיהֶםsaying,לֵאמֹר“Howאֵיכָהdid theseהָאֵלֶּהnationsהַגּוֹיִםserveיַעַבְדוּtheir gods?אֶת אֱלֹהֵיהֶםI alsoגַּם אָנִיwill doוְאֶעֱשֶׂהlikewise.”כֵּן
take care
To watch out for oneself.
Where else “hishamer” appearsbe snared
Be caught with no way out.
Where else “tinakesh” appearsdestroy
Destroy completely, exterminate.
Where else “hishamda” appearsbefore
Literally "to the face of": in sight of someone, or on account of something.
Where else “pane” appearsconsult
To turn to YHWH to ask him, pray to him.
Where else “tidrosh” appearsgods
The gods of other peoples.
Where else “lohe” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “mor” appearsGentiles
The peoples other than Israel.
Where else “goyim” appearsworship
To honor and obey God, or other gods, as his people.
Where else “yaavdu” appearsdo
To carry out an act or to deal with someone in a certain way, for good or ill.
Where else “eese” appears29When YHWH your Elohim cuts off the nations that you are going in there to dispossess from before you, and you dispossess them and live in their land,
30 · This verse (above)
31You shall not act this way toward YHWH your Elohim, for every abomination to YHWH, which he hates, they have done for their gods; for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.
